Transforming Our Backyard Garden || Spring 2024 Update
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- This is a long one, so grab a snack or a water and let's talk about this backyard transformation. It's still a work in progress, but we've come a long way from a dilapidated porch. I wanted to show you from the very beginning up until now, spring 2024, what the process looked like of repairs and gardening back here, in the backyard. This is the north side of the house, so it gets a lot of shade right up against the foundation. The rest of the backyard is part sun and full sun. We've added so many beautiful native plants to this space, it's unreal! And some plants, like goldenrod and aster, came up on their own.
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Absolutely love what you are creating. It is a gorgeous garden!
@@Mslaralah thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed watching it come together.🦋
Ok…I need to get me some Tiarella…wow!!!❤ You two did a great job!
Thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️ So glad we have come this far.☺️
My condolences about your Mom! I think gardening is very therapeutic. I have a similar issue with water rushing towards our house (our backyard is sloped towards our house). While I didn't have time to make a rain garden or do any drastic earthworks, I did sort of dig a swale and fill it with organic matter and planted that area out with more water-loving plants, and it absorbs a lot of water before it makes it to the area around our foundation. I've been using a couple of species of native bunch grasses, I have one I like to use for drier areas and one for wetter areas (planning on branching out in the future but I have to kind of learn to ID each one and distinguish it from my grass weeds). Grass will grow in a decent amount of shade if you pick the right type, it will just grow slower and not flower as much -- and it's very cheap & easy to grow from seed.
Thank you! Yes, there's a huge therapeutic element for me, too, often times. As for native grasses, I'm currently growing some from seed as we speak and I'm so excited to have native grasses added to my garden soon. :) Butterflies and birds alike need the grasses to create shelter and cover. Thanks for taking the time out of your day to not only watch the video, but to leave such a sweet comment. Happy gardening!
Erigeron volunteered in multiple spots of my backyard, and I moved some to my new flowerbed. Seeing how yours looks makes me glad I did that.
Oh yes, it’s such a beautiful display! And even though it readily self seeds, it plays pretty nicely with what I have. It mostly just pops up in my empty spaces. Love it. And so do the bees and wasps.✨
@@awildapproach mine is pretty short and blooming now. You mentioned that you have tall and short versions, so mine must be the short one.
@@ThreeRunHomer When I first started I only had the short ones. A few years in, the tall ones showed up, too. All volunteers. I think I have 3 different species. 2 tall and 1 short. The short one and one of the tall ones blooms spring and the other tall one blooms in the summer. :)
So glad i found your channel!!! Please keep posting!!
Thank you so much for watching! I just released another new video and I filmed yet another one today, so you should have some fun things to watch soon.✨💓I appreciate your sweet comment and you taking time to watch my video.🌱☺️Happy gardening!
@@awildapproach yay! Looking forward to learning from you! I found your channel by searching for the blue mist flower plant, and you had a great video on it. :)
@@McDermottFamily100 Love to hear that! Oh yes, I have several more native plant profile videos I need to make!
I think it's popular because there's a bunch of us looking to find out about different people's experiences with digging these dry creeks to keep water away from our house, sadly... Yaay. But I actually found you because of butterfly weed videos :) then i saw you had videos on dry creeks, so naturally i also clicked on those.
I'm glad you found the channel! I hope it's been a fun watch no matter the topic. :)
If that is a good fern area then try to find Astilbe biternata they are native to Eastern TN and grow great in shaded spots.. I found 3 at my local grower this year and quickly snatched it up.. Native shade growers are awesome to add.. BTW you and your husband do awesome work and thank you for sharing all the hard work you do.. 💜💜
Thank you so much for that suggestion! Just looked it up, and that's a gorgeous majestic plant!
love the wooden pathway. Where did you get those wood slats ?
Such a great question! I should have put it in the video, but I totally forgot to. I actually got them for free from a friend who knew someone who was having a new deck built. It's basically scrap treated wood from a new deck build. The cut offs they couldn't use. :)
Does your area get yellow nutsedge? I don't have it where I live but I've read about it in a lot of weed guides. The little plant does that get orange flowers? It looks a bit like scarlet pimpernel. Or speedwell too, it kind of looks speedwellish. I probably have different weeds than you though...1:02 maybe a cat's ear or hawkweed?
I do get speedwell in my front garden, but the flowers on mine are blue. The little plant's flowers are either white or light pink, but the blooms are so so teeny tiny that it's hard to really tell for sure. The nutsedge is a possibility, because whatever that tall sedge was, it spread like wildfire. I pull them up just because they spread so much and they were invading my little shady fern area. Trying to keep that small patch as ferns, geranium, foamflower, ginger, etc...the woodland style. :)